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title: חָטַב — Tanakh dictionary · trees and pragmatics
description: «חָטַב» in the Tanakh dictionary: cut wood. Every English meaning with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# חָטַב

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**Who acts:** you, vb · **What happens:** cut, gather, carve · **To what, where:** wood, cutters

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«חָטַב‎» in the Tanakh dictionary: its 3 English meanings, every sentence parsed by Mova itself — its syntax tree, a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies, and its pragmatics clause by clause. The word in the dictionary, with its verses: [חָטַב‎ in the Tanakh dictionary](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/2404.md).

## Meaning (OSHB) {#m1}

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cut wood

```conllu
# sent_id = dict:tanakh:2404:m1:1
# text = cut wood
1	cut	cut	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	wood	wood	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **cut** | imperative | you *not said here* | wood |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset wood=Product |

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One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

## Meaning (BDB 1906) {#m2}

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vb. cut or gather wood

```conllu
# sent_id = dict:tanakh:2404:m2:1
# text = vb. cut or gather wood
1	vb	vb	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
3	cut	cut	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
4	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
5	gather	gather	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	conj	_	_
6	wood	wood	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **cut** | infinitive | vb |  |  |  |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer |
| 2 | **gather** | infinitive | vb *not said here* | wood |  |  |  |  | vn deduce-97.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wood=Theme |

## MACULA's glosses {#m3}

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cutters; carved; cut

```conllu
# sent_id = dict:tanakh:2404:m3:1
# text = cutters; carved; cut
1	cutters	cutter	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj:pass	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	3	punct	_	_
3	carved	carve	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	5	punct	_	_
5	cut	cut	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	conj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **carve** | participle · passive |  | cutters |  |  |  |  | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |
| 2 | **cut** | infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer |

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**Text:** the English meanings of the Tanakh dictionary: the OpenScriptures lexical index (CC BY 4.0), Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906 (public domain, via Sefaria) as their short meanings, and MACULA Hebrew's glosses (CC BY 4.0) when they read as English; the whole entries, dense with abbreviations and Hebrew, are not parsed. **Trees:** Mova's own parse — the `en` model on the CPU, when the site is built — not checked by a teacher; they may be wrong. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), each meaning and example read on its own. Trees and frames: Elamur Cosmic License.

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